They're tearing down all the old jetties

 https://stabmag.com/news/can-surfers-win-the-zicatela-sand-war/

“Mother Nature basically started the job for us.”

That destruction lit a fire under the community. “Everybody came together. We had people breaking rocks by hand, carrying them out, lending trucks and machinery. It was all totally voluntary. A proper community service project,” he says. “Now we just have to finish what nature started.”